Let’s see, in recent months, in trying to draw a comparison between Iraq and other historic military campaigns, the Bush gang has referenced Korea, the Revolutionary War, WWI, and the Civil War. Now, the president has settled on a new favorite: World War II. Invoking the spirit of Franklin D. Roosevelt, President Bush on Tuesday […]
I can appreciate the fact that the Census Bureau’s report on poverty, released earlier this week, is an embarrassment for the Bush administration. After all, no administration has seen four consecutive years of increases in the poverty rate since the government began keeping track of the data, a feat this administration has managed to accomplish. […]
Pandagon’s Amanda Marcotte had a really funny post yesterday about the right’s paranoia about “radical lesbian feminists” having taken over the Girl Scouts. What Amanda may not realize, however, is that this paranoid fantasy has been around for a while. The item that caught her attention came by way of Robert Knight and Concerned Women […]
We deal with plenty of far-right demagogues, activists, and crackpots here, but there’s something truly unique about pastor Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas. It’s easy to mock Pat Robertson and scorn James Dobson, but Phelps is in a league of his own. For example, it takes a special kind of person […]
It took some prodding, but the president gave up the last two days of his five-week vacation in light of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation. At the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, however, the halls of Congress are empty. Nancy Pelosi thinks it’s time for lawmakers to get back to work. She has a point. House Minority […]
(Editor’s Note: The Carpetbagger Report, as regular readers know, has joined the Coalition for Darfur, a bi-partisan online initiative created to raise awareness and resources to address the crisis. This is the latest in a series of posts from the Coalition.) Last weekend, the blog Blue Girl, Red State wrote a post about a regular […]